Author: Emma Wilson EmeryPublisher:
ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 79
Book Description
Bleeding Heart and Rue
Author: Emma Wilson EmeryBleeding Hearts
Author: Susan Wittig AlbertPublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101565950
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 307
Book Description
When local football coach and hero Tim Duffy is accused of improper behavior, lawyer-turned-herbalist China Bayles investigates, following a trail of obsession and murder that may lead to her own doorstep.
Self-Sufficiency
Author: Abigail R. GehringPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1634500229
Category : House & Home
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
A Complete Guide to Baking, Carpentry, Crafts, Organic Gardening, Preserving Your Harvest, Raising Animals, and More! The inspiring guide to back to basics living, now fully updated! Now, more than ever, people across the country are turning toward simpler, greener, and quieter ways of living—whether they’re urbanites or country folk. Following in the footsteps of Back to Basics and Homesteading, this large, fully-illustrated book provides the entire family with the information they need to make the shift toward self-sufficient living. Self-Sufficiency provides tips, advice, and detailed instructions on how to improve everyday life from an environmentally and organic perspective while keeping the focus on the family. Readers will learn how to plant a family garden and harvest the produce; can fruits and vegetables; bake bread and cookies; design interactive and engaging “green” projects; harness natural wind and solar energy to cook food and warm their homes; boil sap to make maple syrup; and build treehouses, furniture, and more. Also included are natural crafts readers can do with their kids, such as scrapbooking, making potato prints, dipping candles, and constructing seasonal decorations. Whether the goal is to live entirely off the grid or just to shrink their carbon footprints, families will find this book a thorough resource and a great inspiration.
Care Free Plants
Author: Reader's Digest AssociationPublisher: Readers Digest
ISBN: 0762103582
Category : Landscape plants
Languages : en
Pages : 355
Book Description
This picture- and tip-packed book makes it a snap to keep the beautiful flowers and foliage blooming by using hardy, care-free plants. 500+ full-color photos & illustrations.
The Homesteading Handbook
Author: Abigail R. GehringPublisher: Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.
ISBN: 1616082658
Category : House & Home
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
The ultimate guide to self-sufficient living for country, urban, and suburban...
The Ultimate Self-Sufficiency Handbook
Author: Abigail R. GehringPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1620873478
Category : House & Home
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
This compact guide provides advice, tips, and step-by-step instructions for hundreds of projects, offering the entire family the tools they need to make the shift toward self-sufficient living. Readers will learn to dip candles, bake bread, make maple syrup, start a vineyard, and much more. With special features for young homesteaders, this is an essential family guide to self-sufficient living. - Bake Pies, Cakes, and Bread - Grow Vegetables yy Raise Chickens - Keep Bees - Preserve Your Harvest - Cure Meats - Build a Treehouse - Spin Wool - Make a Toboggan - And Much More!
Homesteading
Author: Abigail GehringPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 162914990X
Category : House & Home
Languages : en
Pages : 1271
Book Description
The companion to the bestseller Back to Basics for country, urban, and suburban folks—now fully updated! Who doesn’t want to shrink their carbon footprint, save money, and eat homegrown food whenever possible? Even readers who are very much on the grid will embrace this large, fully illustrated guide on the basics of living the good, clean life. It’s written with country lovers in mind—even those who currently live in the city. Whether you live in the city, the suburbs, or even the wilderness, there is plenty you can do to improve your life from a green perspective. Got sunlight? Start container gardening. With a few plants, fresh tomato sauce is a real option with your own homegrown fresh tomatoes. Reduce electricity use by eating dinner by candlelight (using homemade candles, of course). Learn to use rainwater to augment water supplies. Make your own soap and hand lotion. Consider keeping chickens for the eggs. From what to eat to supporting sustainable restaurants to avoiding dry cleaning, this book offers information on anything a homesteader needs—and more.
The Shady Border
Author: C. Colston BurrellPublisher: Brooklyn Botanic Garden
ISBN: 9781889538556
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
An illustrated handbook of tips for growing shade-loving perennials for garden borders, including grasses, shrubs, ferns and flowers.
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